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Edythe

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Edythe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 256th, in 1915.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of girls
Peak year
1918582 births
Best rank
#256in 1915
Since 1880
13,872people given the name
Babies named Edythe, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

13,872 girls have been named Edythe in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 582 births.

The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 582 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 29%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Edythe
1880s344
1890s810
1900s1,275
1910s4,055
1920s3,826
1930s1,333
1940s933
1950s622
1960s352
1970s117
1980s34
1990s5
2000s28
2010s101
2020s37

In 1918, its biggest year

Edythe was the 261st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.

Names that rose and fell with Edythe

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.